Issue 4/2021
Content (71 Articles)
JGIM Welcomes Quality Improvement and Implementation Science Submissions on Healthcare Delivery Change
Lisa V. Rubenstein, Ian M. Kronish, Rebekah J. Walker, Luci K. Leykum, Michael K. Ong, Steven M. Asch
Difficulty Taking Medications: a Corollary to Dementia Risk
Pei Chen, Kenneth Covinsky
Difficulty with Taking Medications Is Associated with Future Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
Douglas Barthold, Zachary A. Marcum, Shuxian Chen, Lindsay White, Nagham Ailabouni, Anirban Basu, Norma B. Coe, Shelly L. Gray
Discovering Common Elements of Empirically Supported Self-Help Interventions for Depression in Primary Care: a Systematic Review
Naoaki Kuroda, Matthew D. Burkey, Lawrence S. Wissow
“Doing it Right” Overnight: a Multi-perspective Qualitative Study Exploring Senior Medical Resident Overnight Call
Sarah Burm, Saad Chahine, Mark Goldszmidt
Perceptions of Patient-Provider Communication Across the Six Largest Asian Subgroups in the USA
James B. Kirby, Terceira A. Berdahl, Rosalie A. Torres Stone
“Eyes in the Home”: Addressing Social Complexity in Veterans Affairs Home-Based Primary Care
Elizabeth Hulen, Avery Laliberte, Sarah Ono, Somnath Saha, Samuel T. Edwards
A Simple Scoring Tool to Predict Medical Intensive Care Unit Readmissions Based on Both Patient and Process Factors
Nirav Haribhakti, Pallak Agarwal, Julia Vida, Pamela Panahon, Farsha Rizwan, Sarah Orfanos, Jonathan Stoll, Saqib Baig, Javier Cabrera, John B. Kostis, Cande V. Ananth, William J. Kostis, Anthony T. Scardella
Predicting Mortality Risk After a Hospital or Emergency Department Visit for Nonfatal Opioid Overdose
Jingchuan Guo, Wei-Hsuan Lo-Ciganic, Qingnan Yang, James L. Huang, Jeremy C. Weiss, Gerald Cochran, Daniel C. Malone, Courtney C. Kuza, Adam J. Gordon, Julie M. Donohue, Walid F. Gellad
Change in Health Literacy over a Decade in a Prospective Cohort of Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Laura M. Curtis, Mary J. Kwasny, Lauren Opsasnick, Rachel M. O’Conor, Julia Yoshino-Benavente, Morgan Eifler, Alex D. Federman, Drew Altschul, Michael S. Wolf
Treatment of Patients with Prediabetes in a Primary Care Setting 2011–2018: an Observational Study
Sidra L. Speaker, Radhika Rastogi, Tamara A. Sussman, Bo Hu, Anita D. Misra-Hebert, Michael B. Rothberg
Prevalence and Medication Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder Among Primary Care Patients with Hepatitis C and HIV
Judith I. Tsui, Mary A. Akosile, Gwen T. Lapham, Denise M. Boudreau, Eric A. Johnson, Jennifer F. Bobb, Ingrid A. Binswanger, Bobbi Jo H. Yarborough, Joseph E. Glass, Rebecca C. Rossom, Mark T. Murphy, Chinazo O. Cunningham, Julia H. Arnsten, Manu Thakral, Andrew J. Saxon, Joseph O. Merrill, Jeffrey H. Samet, Gavin B. Bart, Cynthia I. Campbell, Amy M. Loree, Angela Silva, Angela L. Stotts, Brian Ahmedani, Jordan M Braciszewski, Rulin C. Hechter, Thomas F. Northrup, Viviana E. Horigian, Katharine A. Bradley
Engaging Women with Limited Health Literacy in Mammography Decision-Making: Perspectives of Patients and Primary Care Providers
Christine M. Gunn, Ariel Maschke, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow, Nancy R. Kressin, Mara A. Schonberg, Tracy A. Battaglia
Association of Secure Messaging with Primary Care In-Person and Telephone Visits Among Veterans: a Matched Difference-in-Difference Analysis
Amy M. J. O’Shea, Adam Batten, Elaine Y. Hu, Matthew R. Augustine, Timothy P. Hogan, Peter J. Kaboli
A Patient Portal-Based Commitment Device to Improve Adherence with Screening for Colorectal Cancer: a Retrospective Observational Study
Erin E. Hahn, Aileen Baecker, Ernest Shen, Eric C. Haupt, Wahid Wakach, Andre Ahuja, Tracy M. Imley, Michael K. Gould, Michael Kanter
Hospice Care Experiences Among Cancer Patients and Their Caregivers
Layla Parast, Anagha A. Tolpadi, Joan M. Teno, Marc N. Elliott, Rebecca Anhang Price
Effect of Enhanced Primary Care for People with Serious Mental Illness on Service Use and Screening
Lexie R. Grove, Alex K. Gertner, Karen E. Swietek, Ching-Ching Claire Lin, Neepa Ray, Tyler L. Malone, David L. Rosen, Theodore R. Zarzar, Marisa Elena Domino, Brian Sheitman, Beat D. Steiner
Integration of Diabetes and Depression Care Is Associated with Glucose Control in Midwestern Federally Qualified Health Centers
Neda Laiteerapong, Erin M. Staab, Wen Wan, Michael T. Quinn, Amanda Campbell, Stacey Gedeon, Cindy T. Schaefer, Deborah L. Burnet, Marshall H. Chin
Evaluating the Impact of New York’s Executive Order on Face Mask Use on COVID-19 Cases and Mortality: a Comparative Interrupted Times Series Study
Lihua Li, Bian Liu, Shelley H. Liu, Jiayi Ji, Yan Li
Early Acceleration of COVID-19 in Areas with Larger Nursing Homes and Certificate of Need Laws
Cyrus M. Kosar, Momotazur Rahman
COVID-19 Adaptations in the Care of Patients with Opioid Use Disorder: a Survey of California Primary Care Clinics
Lauren Caton, Hannah Cheng, Hélène Chokron Garneau, Tammy Fisher, Briana Harris-Mills, Brian Hurley, Sandra Newman, Mark P. McGovern
Caring for COVID’s Most Vulnerable Victims: a Safety-Net Hospital Responds
Miriam Komaromy, Miriam Harris, Rob M. Koenig, Mary Tomanovich, Glorimar Ruiz-Mercado, Joshua A. Barocas
The Gender of COVID-19 Experts in Newspaper Articles: a Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study
Sarah Fletcher, Moss Bruton Joe, Santanna Hernandez, Inka Toman, Tyrone G. Harrison, Shannon M. Ruzycki
Discharge Clinical Characteristics and Post-Discharge Events in Patients with Severe COVID-19: A Descriptive Case Series
Faysal G. Saab, Jeffrey N. Chiang, Rachel Brook, Paul C. Adamson, Jennifer A. Fulcher, Eran Halperin, Vladimir Manuel, David Goodman-Meza
Mentorship of Underrepresented Physicians and Trainees in Academic Medicine: a Systematic Review
Eliana Bonifacino, Eloho O. Ufomata, Amy H. Farkas, Rose Turner, Jennifer A. Corbelli
Management of Refractory Breathlessness: a Review for General Internists
Annie Massart, Daniel P. Hunt
Approach to Human-Centered, Evidence-Driven Adaptive Design (AHEAD) for Health Care Interventions: a Proposed Framework
Meredith Fischer, Nadia Safaeinili, Marie C. Haverfield, Cati G. Brown-Johnson, Dani Zionts, Donna M. Zulman
Prior Choices of Between-Study Heterogeneity in Contemporary Bayesian Network Meta-analyses: an Empirical Study
Kristine J. Rosenberger, Aiwen Xing, Mohammad Hassan Murad, Haitao Chu, Lifeng Lin
From Code to Bedside: Implementing Artificial Intelligence Using Quality Improvement Methods
Margaret Smith, Amelia Sattler, Grace Hong, Steven Lin
To Battle COVID-19’s Twin Economic and Health Crises, Medicaid Needs Flexible Funding Structures for Stabilization
Patrick N. O’Mahen, Laura A. Petersen
Improved Serious Illness Communication May Help Mitigate Racial Disparities in Care Among Black Americans with COVID-19
Lauren T. Starr, Nina R. O’Connor, Salimah H. Meghani
A Policy Statement of the Society of General Internal Medicine on Tackling Racism in Medical Education: Reflections on the Past and a Call to Action for the Future
Eloho Ufomata, Sarah Merriam, Aditi Puri, Katherine Lupton, Darlene LeFrancois, Danielle Jones, Attila Nemeth, Laura K. Snydman, Rachel Stark, Carla Spagnoletti
Here, but Apart During COVID-19: Bringing Connection and Empathy to the Socially Distant Family Meeting
Leah B. Rosenberg, Margaret A. Cramer, Juliet C. Jacobsen
Healthy People 2030 Health Literacy Definition Tells Organizations: Make Information and Services Easy to Find, Understand, and Use
Cindy Brach, Linda M. Harris
A Roadmap for Diversity in Medicine During the Age of COVID-19 and George Floyd
Dowin Boatright, David Berg, Inginia Genao
PSST! I Need Help! Development of a Peer Support Program for Clinicians Having Serious Illness Conversations During COVID-19
Jeffrey L. Greenwald, Annah N. Abrams, Elyse R. Park, Phuong L. Nguyen, Juliet Jacobsen
Syphilitic Proctitis Presenting as a Rectal Mass: a Case Report and Review of the Literature
Jessica K. Costales-Cantrell, Elizabeth Y. Dong, Bechien U. Wu, Jim H. Nomura
Not So Benign Bell’s Palsy: Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor of the Facial Nerve Involving the Temporal Bone
Christopher N. Nguyen, Niharika Mallepally, Jules R. Tabilona, Lee B. Lu
Familial Frank’s Sign: Diagonal Earlobe Creases and Premature Coronary Artery Disease
Arturo Gasga, Binh An P. Phan
Letter to the Editor: Eradicating Jargon-Oblivion—A Proposed Classification System of Medical Jargon
Juan N. Lessing, Yasmin Yazdani Farsad, Ethan Cumbler
Response to Letter to the Editor Re: Eradicating Jargon-Oblivion—a Proposed Classification System of Medical Jargon
Michael B. Pitt, Marissa A. Hendrickson
Letter to the Editor in Response to Khazanchi et al.
Aditi Nayak, Shabatun J. Islam, Anurag Mehta, Arshed A. Quyyumi
Methodological Considerations for Modeling Social Vulnerability and COVID-19 Risk—Response to Nayak et al.
Rohan Khazanchi, Evan R. Beiter, Ishani Ganguli
Re: Blackface in White Space: Using Admissions to Address Racism in Medical Education
Marie V. Plaisime, Jessica P. Cerdeña
Re: Blackface in White Space: Using Admissions to Address Racism in Medical Education
Nientara Anderson, Dowin Boatright, Anna Reisman
Patient Safety–Related Incidents and Daylight Saving Time Transitions
Muhammad A. Rishi, Saleha Chaudhry
Patient safety related incidents and daylight savings time transitions
Bhanu Prakash Kolla, Brandon J. Coombes, Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Meghna P. Mansukhani
Perspectives on Deprescribing Communication in Primary Care
Ariel R. Green, Cynthia M. Boyd, Kathy S. Gleason, Leslie Wright, Courtney R. Kraus, Ruth Bedoy, Bianca Sanchez, Jonathan Norton, Orla C. Sheehan, Jennifer L. Wolff, Emily Reeve, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Linda A. Weffald, Elizabeth A. Bayliss
Masks Reduce Viral Inoculum of SARS-CoV2
Monica Gandhi, Chris Beyrer, Eric Goosby
Racial, Ethnic, and Income-Based Disparities in Health Care–Related Trust
Jessica Greene, Sharon K. Long
Finding the Evidence Base Using Citation Networks: Do 300 to 400 US Physicians Die by Suicide Annually?
Tiffany I. Leung, Sima Pendharkar, Chwen-Yuen Angie Chen, Michel Dumontier
From the #MeToo Frontlines: Incoming Interns Report a Breadth of Experiences Related to Sexual Harassment in Medical School
Emmanuelle Yecies, Melissa McNeil
Gout Treatment in the USA from 2009 to 2016: A Repeated Cross-sectional Analysis
Yu Pei Chock, Joseph S. Ross, Lisa G. Suter, Taeho Greg Rhee
Association Between Effectiveness of Care Quality Ratings and Insurer Characteristics in the Health Insurance Marketplaces
David Anderson, Sih-Ting Cai, Jean Abraham, Coleman Drake
Use of Electronic Health Records on Days Off: Comparing Physicians to Other EHR Users
Nate C. Apathy, Christopher A. Harle, Joshua R. Vest, Justin Morea, Nir Menachemi
Trends in Age at Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes Among US Adults from 2001 to 2016
Phuc Le, Lu Zhang, Anita D. Misra-Hebert, Glen B. Taksler, William H. Herman, Michael B. Rothberg
Factors Associated with Hospital-Acquired Delirium in Patients 18–65 Years Old
Nidhi Rohatgi, Yingjie Weng, Neera Ahuja, Maarten G. Lansberg
Characteristics of Younger and Older Adults with Hospital-Acquired Delirium: a Claims Data Study Spanning 14 years
Nidhi Rohatgi, Yingjie Weng, Neera Ahuja, Maarten G. Lansberg
COVID-19 Infections Among General Internal Medicine Faculty at a New York Teaching Hospital: a Descriptive Report
Jennifer I. Lee, Brooke W. Bullington, Matthew S. Simon, Daniel J. Crossman, Arthur T. Evans, Margaret L. McNairy
Demographic Characteristics of Adults with IgG Antibodies to Prior Symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection
Mayce Mansour, Ania Wajnberg, Deena R. Altman, Kimberly Muellers, Kimberly Stone
Co-detection of SARS-CoV-2 with Secondary Respiratory Pathogen Infections
Clifford L. Freeman, Nathaniel M. Miller, Lisa Bastarache, Josh Peterson, Wesley H. Self, Tyler W. Barrett, Michael J. Ward
Outcomes among 6721 Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients across the New York City Public Hospital System: a Retrospective Cohort Study
Nicholas Caputo, John Zhang, Robert Chin, Chad Meyers, Shaw Natsui, David M. Silvestri, Jason Z. D’Amore
COVID-19 Serologic Testing Among the Highest Risk Healthcare Workers
Snehal Gandhi, Christine C. Winn, Monica Ianosi-Irimie, Tina Bocker Edmonston, Raquel Nahra, Brian W. Roberts
Patient Characteristics Associated with Telemedicine Use at a Large Academic Health System Before and After COVID-19
Preeti Kakani, Andrea Sorensen, Jacob K. Quinton, Maria Han, Michael K. Ong, Nirav Kamdar, Catherine A. Sarkisian
Voting Behavior of Physicians and Healthcare Professionals
Rachel E. Solnick, Hwajung Choi, Keith E. Kocher